Word: oktibbeha
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...painfully memorable day this spring Jack Reese did a crazy dance in the middle of a persimmon grove on his farm in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. Flailing wildly, he tried to yank off his pants and swat his ankles at the same time. He had made one of the worst mistakes a Southern farmer can make: he forgot to watch the ground for a moment and thus tromped on a foot-high mound full of fire ants. Incensed by the intrusion, the insects promptly swarmed up Reese's legs, stinging him mercilessly over and over again. It felt like dozens...
...inflammatory talk is producing more white boycotts of integrated schools and a steady proliferation of private academies. A high school in Mississippi's Oktibbeha County that was to reopen last week with a heavy black enrollment burned down; arson is suspected. Bomb threats delayed the opening of two newly integrated schools in Birmingham. Bills outlawing busing to achieve racial integration are being introduced in Southern legislatures. Most of them are patterned after a law enacted last year by the New York state legislature-and Mississippi's Stennis has introduced an almost identical measure in the U.S. Senate...
...Amite County pointedly photographed Negroes waiting to register, menacingly asked them who their nearest white neighbors were. In Georgia's Baker County, a civil rights worker was knocked down seven courthouse steps by the sheriff when he brought Negroes in to register. In Mississippi's Oktibbeha County, a Negro woman who asked the sheriff for directions to the courthouse was gruffly told, "We don't let Nigras vote here." The locked door to the registrar's office in Alabama's Lee County bore the sign "Back Sept.1," and the office in Mississippi's Rankin...
...scientists at Mississippi State College, Drs. Dorothy Dickins and Robert N. Ford, think they know why: lack of iron in the diet. Last fortnight Science News Letter reported some results of their investigation among 207 Negro school children in Oktibbeha County, Miss. At least a quarter of the children admitted eating dirt. Most of the dirt-eaters had less of the iron-rich foods, such as molasses, mustard greens, liver, in their diet than did the non-dirt-eaters. And as far as the scientists could find out, the craving for dirt (known as geophagia) has nothing to do with...
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